Medical and rescue personnel will be in place to start extracting and treating the miners.
We were interviewing the Medical Emergency Rescue Team (MERT) when they got called out for an emergency.
The priority in the coming hours must be rescue, medical care and emergency feeding.
Search and rescue teams from Florida, Virginia and California will arrive throughout today and tomorrow, and more rescue and medical equipment and emergency personnel are being prepared.
Dozens of other applications have been mapped out for U.S. and foreign military users ranging from peacekeeping support, emergency and disaster relief, search and rescue, medical evacuation, drug interdiction and other post-Cold War priority missions.
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Officers now provide critical life safety functions during plane incidents, from firefighting and passenger rescue to basic medical support and assisting in water rescues.
Prior to implementation of the Motorola system in 2002 we had serious interoperability issues between federal, state and local police, fire, rescue, emergency medical, utilities, transportation, schools and other related services.
For the first three or four years of Army ownership, the fairways were occasionally mowed to facilitate training maneuvers, such as setting up medical-evacuation areas and hostage rescue.
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"These towers serve other important functions -- including law enforcement activity, medical transport flights, search and rescue missions, business and commerce and supporting flight schools across America, " the association said in a statement.
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However, while it may be another ten years before snake robots are consistently used in search and rescue operations or in medical situations, Choset believes they will one day be hugely valuable devices.
On July 15, 1996, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order No. 13010, in which he identified eight infrastructure systems critical to the nation's survival: telecommunications, electric power systems, oil and gas storage, transportation, banking and finance, storage and transportation, water supply systems, and emergency services (including medical, police, fire and rescue, and continuity of government).
Members of Veterinary Medical Assistance teams have given medical aid to search-and-rescue dogs.
Bush said the federal government's first priority is to rescue those still trapped and provide medical assistance.
The rescue mission already owned a vacant medical building in Highland Park, an impoverished city within Detroit's borders.
Israel is sending an army rescue unit, including engineers, doctors and other medical staff.
The pride and admiration we have for the fire and police officers, medical personnel, government agencies, thousands of volunteers, and all others involved in the rescue efforts are immense.
The 24-year-old Royal Army Medical Corps medic was awarded his medal in March for his actions in Helmand, which saw him rescue a soldier who had been seriously injured in a Taliban ambush while under heavy fire.
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